A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDERA dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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