“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”
Source: Post Office (1971)
“If a man can take any pleasure in recalling the thought of kindnesses done.”
LXXVI, lines 1–2
Carmina
Original
Siqua recordanti benefacta priora voluptas Est homini.
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