There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
PLINY THE ELDERWhen a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Not a day without a line.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Chance is a second master.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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