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		<title>Horace -- Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep.  1 &#8220;To Augustus,&#8221; l. 262ff (2.1.262-263) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We learn more quickly and bring back to mind more readily The things we laugh at than those we respect and revere. [Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.] On why he declines to write epic poetry: because he doubts his talents, and the public will remember only [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We learn more quickly and bring back to mind more readily<br />
The things we laugh at than those we respect and revere.</p>
<p><em>[Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud<br />
Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]</em></p>
<br><b>Horace</b> (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Epistles [Epistularum, Letters]</i>, Book 2, ep.  1 &#8220;To Augustus,&#8221; l. 262ff (2.1.262-263) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresanndepist0000hora/page/258/mode/2up?q=%22learn+more+quickly%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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On why he declines to write epic poetry: because he doubts his talents, and the public will remember only if it's a bad poem. Which is especially problematic if the poem is about someone (like Augustus) still alive.<br><br>

(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0539:book=2:poem=1&highlight=Discit+enim+citius%2C#:~:text=discit%20enim%20citius%20meminitque%20libentius%20illud%0Aquod%20quis%20deridet%2C%20quam%20quod%20probat%20et%20veneratur.">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>A man may soner beare awaye and rather kepe in mynde<br>
The thinge deryded, then that is prayse worthie in his kynde.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03670.0001.001/1:8.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=A%20man%20may,in%20his%20kynde.">Drant</a> (1567)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For Readers so malicious now are growne,<br>
What's bad they'll con, what's good they let alone.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44478.0001.001;node=A44478.0001.001:8;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=For%20Readers%20so,they%20let%20alone.">W. P.</a>; ed. Brome (1666)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For what's derided by the Censuring Crowd,<br>
Is thought on more than what is just and Good.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44471.0001.001;node=A44471.0001.001:8;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=For%20what%27s%20derided,just%20and%20Good">Creech</a> (1684)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">For quickly we discern,<br> 
With ease remember, and with pleasure learn, <br>
Whate'er may ridicule and laughter move, <br>
Not what deserves our best esteem and love.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesi00hora/page/258/mode/2up?q=%22quickly+we+discern%22">Francis</a> (1747)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For sooner caught and steadier to abide<br>
On memory's tablet that which we deride,<br>
Than what revere.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epodes_Satires_and_Epistles_of_Horac/TPgDAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22fooner%20caught%22">Howes</a> (1845)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For one learns sooner, and more willingly remembers, that which a man derides, than that which he approves and venerates.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_works_of_Horace/Second_Book_of_Epistles#:~:text=For%20one%20learns%20sooner%2C%20and%20more%20willingly%20remembers%2C%20that%20which%20a%20man%20derides%2C%20than%20that%20which%20he%20approves%20and%20venerates.">Smart/Buckley</a> (1853)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For easier 'tis to learn and recollect<br>
What moves derision than what claims respect.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Satires,_Epistles_%26_Art_of_Poetry_of_Horace/Ep2-01#:~:text=For%20easier%20%27tis%20to%20learn%20and%20recollect%0AWhat%20moves%20derision%20than%20what%20claims%20respect.">Conington</a> (1874)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For we learn quicker, gladlier recollect<br>
What makes us laugh, than what commands respect.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/worksofhorace02horauoft/page/356/mode/2up?q=%22for+we+learn+quicker%22">Martin</a> (1881)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The subject of our zeal sooner hears of, and is more inclined to remember, that which any one laughs at in the production than what he approves of and eulogizes.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Works_of_Horace/-f8pAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22zeal%20sooner%22">Elgood</a> (1893)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.<br>
[<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cassell_s_Book_of_Quotations_Proverbs_an/J8MxAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22easily%20that%20which%20he%20laughs%22">E.g.</a> (1907)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">For one sooner learns<br>
And easier remembers such concerns<br>
As men deride that those men favor lend<br>
And venerate.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/completeworksofh0000casp_g2w3/page/378/mode/2up?q=%22one+sooner+learns%22">A. F. Murison</a> (1931); ed. Kraemer (1936)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For we all more quickly learn and easily remember<br>
the poems we scorn than those we approve of and respect.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/horacessatiresep0000hora/page/78/mode/2up?q=%22we+all+more+quickly%22">Fuchs</a> (1977)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And writers of foolish poems often find<br>
They're vividly and scornfully remembered.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/epistlesofhorace0000hora/page/130/mode/2up?q=%22scornfully+remembered%22">Ferry</a> (2001)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For a thing that causes merriment is always sooner learnt<br>
and longer remembered than what commands respect and approval.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhoracep00hora/page/114/mode/2up?q=%22causes+merriment%22">Rudd</a> (2005 ed.)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Men remember more quickly, with greater readiness,<br>
Things they deride, than those they approve and respect.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceEpistlesBkIIEpI.php#anchor_Toc98154298:~:text=Men%20remember%20more,approve%20and%20respect">Kline</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Watterson, Bill -- Calvin and Hobbes (1994-01-31)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">CALVIN&#8217;S DAD: Why is it I can recall a cigarette ad jingle from 25 years ago, but I can&#8217;t remember what I just got up to do?</p>
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<br><b>Bill Watterson</b> (b. 1958) American cartoonist<br><i>Calvin and Hobbes</i> (1994-01-31) 
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