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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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