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Seized Quotes by Pliny the Elder
- The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
- Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of…
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