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Natural History, by Pliny the Elder, Reading 1

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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Cato the Censor

"I know that when I shall publish what I have written, there will be many who will do all they can to depreciate it," he writes. "Cato the censor was open to the attacks of such as caught at reputation for themselves by detracting from the merits of others." He adds: 'For what other object have they but to wrangle and breed quarrels'

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