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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Pliny the Elder

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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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