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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

Pliny the Elder

Naturalis Historia

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 8.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 8.

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The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 7.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 7.

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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 2.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 2.

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No man is wise at all times.

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 7.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 7.

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There is always something new out of Africa.

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Naturalis Historia

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 8.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 8.

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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 1.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 1.

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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 7.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 7.

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When collating authorities I have found that the most professedly reliable and modern writers have copied the old authors word for word, without acknowledgement.

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, dedication.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, preface.

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