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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....
• Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xxviii, Sect. 23...
• It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book viii, Sect. 148...
• The bird of passage known to us as the cuckoo. -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xviii, Sect.
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• With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 5...
• Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvellous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time?
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 6...
• The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xviii, Sect. 31...
• Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xviii, Sect. 44...
• It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xiv, Sect. 141...