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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Pliny the Elder

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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Chance is a second master.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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