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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3547
AUTHOR:Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
QUOTATION:For I, who hold sage Homer’s rule the best,
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire ii. Book ii. Line 159.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
This line is repeated in the translation of the Odyssey, book xv. line 83, with “parting” instead of “going.” [back]
 

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