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

  Horace
  Roman poet
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. circumstances
2. eliciting
3. talents
4. dormant
5. would

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

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