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Horace

(65—8 B.C.), 13 B.C. Satires

The man is either crazy, or he is a poet.

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Wentworth Dillon

(1633-1685), Irish poet, in Translation of Horace's Ars Poetica, 1.202 Old men are only walking hospitals. www.english-slang.com

crazy

[crazy] or [mad] or [nuts about] {adj. phr.}, {informal} Excessively fond of; infatuated with. * /Jack is totally nuts about Liz, but she is not too crazy about him./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[like mad] or [like crazy] {adv.}, {slang}, {informal} With great enthusiasm and vigor; very fast. * /We had to drive like mad (like crazy) to get there on time./ See: […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Horace

(65 B.C.--8 B.C.), Epistles, II All dare to write who can or cannot read. www.english-slang.com

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