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.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is always something new out of Africa.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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 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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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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In wine there is health.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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