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.
PLINY THE ELDERIndeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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