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Human nature craves novelty.

Pliny the Elder

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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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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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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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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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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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