It is no great art to say something briefly when like Tacitus one has something to say, when one ha Horace Quotes
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It is no great art to say something briefly when like Tacitus one has something to say, when one has nothing to say however and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

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