Natural History, by Pliny the Elder, Reading 1
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The Day I Devote My Life to You
"I dare promise nothing, but you have done me the most essential service in permitting me to dedicate my work to you," he writes. "The day I devote to you, exactly portioning out my sleep to the necessity of my health, and contented myself with this reward, that while we are musing on these subjects, according to the remark of Pharaoh, we are adding to the length of our lives." The book is a history of our own times, beginning where our fiddious bosses concludes. It has been long completed, and is accuracy confirmed, but I have determined to commit the charge of it to my heirs.
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