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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

Pliny the Elder

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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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