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• Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught.
  He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep....
• He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book iii, Letter v, 10...
• Yo momma so ugly that your father takes her to work with him so that he doesn't have to kiss her goodbye.
• Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O
  Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!...
• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
  -- E.B. White...
• With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 5...
• Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 561...
• Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a working man.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79)...