Pliny the Younger Quotes

• An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
• He (Pliny the Elder) used to say that 'no book was so bad but that some good might be got out of it.'
• That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
• Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye...We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.
• His only fault is that he has no fault.

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