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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
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...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.
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The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black those of Breotia are more red than black and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.
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In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Hope is a working-man's dream.
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It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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