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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

Pliny the Elder

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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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