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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

Pliny the Elder

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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Agree Agriculture Do Emotion Hope Inspiring Maximum Motivation Opportunity Practise
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Death Goodness Human Life Short
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Far Grasp Hold Neglect Ourselves Pursue
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Advice Buyer Deep Disagree Judgment Query Reflection Think
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Common Consideration Enjoy Happy Positive Mindset Share
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Bad Book Knowledge Life May Success Use
The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Citizen Class Courage Hard Work Life Men Soldier Success
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Birth Doe Expression Life Men Naked Nude
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Born Disease Dish Meat Shine Simple Worse
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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Alcohol Drink Kind Mood One Liner Pleasant Swing Wine
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Birth Deep Emotion Grant Happy Laughter Men Soul Zeal
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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Audacity Bold Challenge Learn Men Nature
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

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