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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

Pliny the Elder

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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner Spring
The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Act Aware Ego Knowledge Rude Science Selfish
Human nature craves novelty.
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Better Disease Food Granted Heath Human Nature Improve Novelty Relax Reveal Sad Time Truth Wine
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Emotion Exercise Improvement Land Patience Positive Seed
The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Blood Brain Donate Emotion Perception Relation
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Charm Object Possession Pursuit
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Assume Faith Good Lose Luck Reputation Shameful
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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Deity Kind Laughter Man Power Regard Toy Worth
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Equality Irony One Liner Reality
His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Fault Fine Guilt Mistake One Liner Penalty Punish
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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Doe First Impossible Inspire Mission Success
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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Far Grasp Hold Neglect Ourselves Pursue
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Business Lost Men Suicide Weak Work
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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Body Enemy Foe Lust Mind Person Purse Weakness
When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Collapse Flee Latin Little One Liner Rodent Small Tiny

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