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Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

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Ovid
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Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
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