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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late and again, that everything must be done at its proper season while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Home is where the heart is.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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