The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
PLINY THE ELDERSimple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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