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"Continual dropping wears away a stone."
Lucretius / De Rerum Natura. i. 313.
De Rerum Natura. i. 313.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others."
Lucretius / De Rerum Natura. iv. 637.
De Rerum Natura. iv. 637.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers."
Lucretius / De Rerum Natura. iv. 1133.
De Rerum Natura. iv. 1133.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain