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Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca. That private ipse plaudo he may have in this business, which is a business of money; but the applause of no other human creature will he have for giving such an account as he admits this to be, irregular, uncertain, problematical, and of which no one can make either head or tail.
'Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca. 'I'm hissed in public; but in secret blest, I count my money and enjoy my chest. Horace, Sat. i. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 26.
"Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca." And never did a man submit to infamy for anything but its true reward, money.
Upon one point, certainly, all agree constant distrust and depreciation of England; and, all things considered, I know no one spot on God's earth, where the hackneyed old line can be quoted so complacently by a Britisher: Sibilat populus, mihi plaudo. It would be unfair, not to give the American Press credit for great energy and ability in collecting intelligence from the different seats of war.
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