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I think you're the grumpy Kid in the Hall, I'm the nice Kid in the Hall.

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Pliny the Elder

Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.

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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

Dream, Dreams, Morning, Night, Stinking, Wine

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

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As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.

Becoming, May, Melancholy, Mind, Temper, Wise

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.

Granted, Laughing, Laughter, Looked, Men, Precocity
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