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Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892-1978)
Titus Maccius Plautuswas a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.
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Titus Maccius Plautuswas a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature. The word Plautine refers to both Plautus’s own works and works similar to or influenced by his.
‘He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
Roman comic playwright (c. 254 - 184 BC)
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Roman comic playwright (c. 254 - 184 BC)
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Roman comic playwright (c. 254 - 184 BC)
There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Roman comic playwright (c. 254 - 184 BC)
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
Roman comic playwright (c. 254 - 184 BC)
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Roman comic playwright (c. 254 - 184 BC)
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
Roman comic playwright (c. 254 - 184 BC)
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Roman comic playwright (c. 254 - 184 BC)