Human nature is fond of novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERIt [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Chance is a second master.
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Not a day without a line.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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 enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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