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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

Pliny the Elder

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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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