It Is Far From Easy To Determine Whether She [Nature] Has Proved To Him A Kind Parent Or A Merciless Stepmother.

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It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to
him a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
-- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD)
-- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 1

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