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There is always something new out of Africa.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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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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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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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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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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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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