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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Pliny the Elder

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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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