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

Pliny the Elder

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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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