How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERIt is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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