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Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

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Horace
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Remember
Bottles
Moping
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Field
Cellar
Long
Green
Cellars
Fields
Carpe
Days
Innermost
Dies
Feast
Whether
Bottle
Happy
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