“Tis not sufficient to combine
Well-chosen words in a well-ordered line.”

—  Horace , book Satires

Book I, satire iv, line 54 (translated by John Conington)
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)

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Non satis est puris versum perscribere verbis.

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