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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
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Gaius P. Secundus
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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There is alas no law against incompetency no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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