Martial on Authors
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“Jack writes severe lampoons on me, 'tis said—But he writes nothing, who is never read.”
“You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine, or else publish your own.”
“He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whole book full of them?”