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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Horace
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Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).

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