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Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she [Nature] abandon to cries and lamentations.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Hail, Nature, mother of all creation, and mindful that I alone of the men of Rome have praised thee in all thy manifestations, be gracious to me.
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that 'the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.'
Walter Bagehot
Pliny the Elder
Born:
23
Died:
August 25, 79
(aged 56)
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