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Our civilization depends largely on paper.

Pliny the Elder

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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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