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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

50 Cent, Pliny the Elder

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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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