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.
PLINY THE ELDERBetter do nothing than do ill.
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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In wine there is health.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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