Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
PLINY THE ELDERMost men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
PLINY THE ELDERNature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERAs land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
PLINY THE ELDERTrue happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
PLINY THE ELDERLet honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
PLINY THE ELDERNo book so bad but some part may be of use.
PLINY THE ELDERA dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDERLet that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
PLINY THE ELDERWhen a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the citadel of sense perception.
PLINY THE ELDERThe perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
PLINY THE ELDERTo 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 ELDERSuch is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
PLINY THE ELDERThe 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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