"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
"What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave."
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Source: Ovid, Grant Showerman (1977). “Heroides ; Amores”, Heinemann Young Books
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