• A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

  Horace
  Roman poet
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. fortune
2. small
3. pinch
4. those
5. whose

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them. by : Horace

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