"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man."
"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."
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Source: Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.392, Delphi Classics
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