I guess many of our readers have heard the phrase, “Carpe diem,” from the Latin poet Horace, and know that it means, “Seize the day!” That is, you’d better take advantage of the day while you can, because the night soon comes, or as Shakespeare says in one of his saddest and sweetest songs, “Youth’s a stuff will not endure.” Actually, the phrase means…
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