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• The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

  Pliny the Elder

  Animal, Men, Tears

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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.

  Pliny the Elder

  Names, Touching, Peaches

  "Natural History". Book by Pliny the Elder, Book XV, Chapter 13. Holland's translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591,

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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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  Numbers, Purpose, Belief

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

  Pliny the Elder

  Simple, Meat, Sauce

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15Natural History, Book XI, Chapter LIII. Holland's translation, 1922.

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• Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.

  Pliny the Elder

  Mean, Vanity, Departed

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1964). “The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny”

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• The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

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  Dragons, Snakes, Tree

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