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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

Pliny the Elder

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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Home is where the heart is.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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