Dulce est Desipere in Loco

It is delightful to play the fool occasionally; it is nice to throw aside one’s dignity and relax at the proper time. (Horace: 4 Odes, xii. 28.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.