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The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.

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Pliny the Elder

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Avarice Greed, Lust, Mankind, Possess, Wealth
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

Country, Generosity, Kindred, Men, Neighbors

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

Dream, Dreams, Morning, Night, Stinking, Wine

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

Cast, Doe, Man, Men, Moment, Naked

As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.

Becoming, May, Melancholy, Mind, Temper, Wise

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.

Granted, Laughing, Laughter, Looked, Men, Precocity
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