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Human nature is fond of novelty.

Pliny the Elder

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Business Character Greatness Improvement Man Ourselves Power Pursuit Rule
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Better Disease Evil Food Heath Improve Relax Sad Time Wine
Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Advice Follow Help Neighbour Relation Secure Way
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
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
As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Eat Food Garden Hunger Refreshment Smell Taste
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Equality Irony One Liner Reality
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Assume Faith Good Lose Luck Reputation Shameful
Not a day without a line.
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Day Line One Liner
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Compare Emotion Former Frustate
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
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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