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Latin term

populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca

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Sherlocock Holmes: A study in scarlet last paragraph In the mean time be like the Roman Miser- "Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca."
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The quotation is from Horace, Book 1, Satire 1.
"The public hisses at me, but I applaude myself in my own house, and simultaneously contemplate the money in my chest."
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