Pliny the Younger Quotes

Poets have a license to lie.

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Poets have a license to lie.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate adversity the great.

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Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

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So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

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