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Our civilization depends largely on paper.

Pliny the Elder

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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Far Grasp Hold Neglect Ourselves Pursue
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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Citizen Class Courage Hard Work Life Men Soldier Success
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Business Character Greatness Improvement Man Ourselves Power Pursuit Rule
Better do nothing than do ill.
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Action Better Karma Sick
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Birth Doe Expression Life Men Naked Nude
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Custom Goal Hands Life Manner Master Overcoming Practice Project Pursuit Teach Unique
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
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
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
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Ability Brave Country Military Powerful Protect Sacrifice
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Building Cactus Desert Fall Fortune Karma One Liner
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Affect Assume Emotion Genuine Imagine Incredible Nature
In wine, there’s truth.
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Dare Heart Mood Nature One Liner Reveal Speak Truth Wine
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Act Aware Ego Knowledge Rude Science Selfish

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