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Quotes by Pliny the Elder

2 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.— filed under Laughter

When a building is about to fall down all the mice desert it.— filed under Alexander Severus