Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
PLINY THE ELDERIn the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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Not a day without a line.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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