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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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