Human nature is fond of novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERFrom the end spring new beginnings.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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In wine there is health.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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