On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Not a day without a line.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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