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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

Pliny the Elder

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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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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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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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