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Horace Quotes: The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.
         

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.


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