Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by lan… - Pliny the Younger

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Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by 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.

Pliny the Younger

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Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, an author and a natural philosopher of Ancient Rome.

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Alternative Names: C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus • Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus • the Younger Pliny • Gaius Caecilius Cilo

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Oblige people never so often, and, if you deny them on a single point, they remember nothing but that refusal.

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Habet has vices conditio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur.

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