• How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?

  Horace
  Roman poet
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. different
2. content
3. praises
4. chance
5. thrown
6. follow

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course? by : Horace

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