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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

Pliny the Elder

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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Deep Men Nature Positive Possible Privilege Suicide Sympathy
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
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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Agree Agriculture Do Emotion Hope Inspiring Maximum Motivation Opportunity Practise
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Country Democracy Fear Ignore Life One Liner Provoke War
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
As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Eat Food Garden Hunger Refreshment Smell Taste
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
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Common Consideration Enjoy Happy Positive Mindset Share
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
….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Adaptation Adopt Causes Grab Moral Opportunity Selfish
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Bad Book Knowledge Life May Success Use
Truth comes out in wine.
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Better Disease Evil Food Heath Improve Relax Reveal Sad Time Truth Wine
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Ability Brave Country Military Powerful Protect Sacrifice
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Complex Difference Envy Frustrate Inferior Passion Result
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.
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Compare Emotion Former Frustate

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