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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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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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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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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