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'Nec quaerere nec spernere honores oportet.* It is good to enjoy the blessings of fortune: it is better to submit without a pang to their loss. You remember, when you left me, I was preparing myself for this stroke: believe me, I am now prepared." * "It becomes us neither to court nor to despise honours." And in truth Bolingbroke bore the ingratitude of the Chevalier well.
All his plans and proposed projects were instantly altered for the purpose of giving them the appearance of novelty; and my father found himself in a situation to apply these lines of Virgil to himself. "Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores." These lines I made, another has the praise. He thought no more of him, and we were set up as a mark of every kind of obloquy.
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