A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Home is where the heart is.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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