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Human nature craves novelty.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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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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Not a day without a line.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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