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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

Pliny the Elder

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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Heart Home One Liner
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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