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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Crime Expense Nation Reason Sanity Wine
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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Country Decline Manhood Ourselves Youth
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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Eath Enemy Kind Men Mother
Home is where the heart is.
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Heart Home One Liner
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
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Bird Light Silence
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Alone Earth Move Remain
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
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Charming Deep Happiness Hear Men Novelty Positive Wish
On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Act Eye Farmer Farming Feeding Fertilizer Income Master One Liner
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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Deserve Feel Happy Name Nature Doubt Parent Suffer
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Charm Object Possession Pursuit
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Certain Philosophy Unknown
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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Better Cooking Disease Evil Food Heath Improve Vino Wine
Human nature craves novelty.
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Better Disease Food Granted Heath Human Nature Improve Novelty Relax Reveal Sad Time Truth Wine
Not a day without a line.
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Day Line One Liner
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Man Weep
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Alcohol Drink Kind Mood One Liner Pleasant Swing Wine
Better do nothing than do ill.
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Action Better Karma Sick
Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Dream Faith Hope Men Success Work
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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Born Disease Dish Meat Shine Simple Worse
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Bad Conscience Emotion Fame Men Name
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Democracy Economy Income Life Liquid Money
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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Blood Brain Donate Emotion Perception Relation
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Believe Desire God Gratification Hope Lust Men Wish
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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Believe Desire God Hope Lust Men Wish

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