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No book so bad but some part may be of use.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Beautiful Gravity Human Pleasure World
On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Act Eye Farmer Farming Feeding Fertilizer Income Master One Liner
No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Diamond Gold Men Opportunity Shine Struggle
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Death Evil God Himself Life Man
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Charming Deep Happiness Hear Men Novelty Positive Wish
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Death Goodness Human Life Short
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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Country Friendship Generous Man Myself
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Bad Conscience Emotion Fame Men Name
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Charm Object Possession Pursuit
In wine, there’s truth.
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Dare Heart Mood Nature One Liner Reveal Speak Truth Wine
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Compare Emotion Former Frustate
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Bird Light Silence
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Deep Easy Honor Motivation Obligation Important Strong
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Conscious Envy Hide Inferiority Nature One Liner Shame Shy Suspect
Better do nothing than do ill.
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Action Better Karma Sick

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