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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 Elder

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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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