"Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms."
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Pliny the Younger quotes (page 2 of 2)
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"Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console."
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"In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity."
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"The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one."
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"Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things."
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"Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble."
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"He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'."
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"Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love."
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"They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied."
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"Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea."
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"The living voice is that which sways the soul."
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