There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
PLINY THE ELDERWine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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