“For he never read without taking extracts, and used to say that there never was a book so bad that it was not good in some passage or another.”
Quote by Pliny the Younger
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[Epistolae Plinii ad Trajanum imperatorem hujusque ad illum responsa]: inest Historia critica Epistolarum Plinii et Trajani usque ad a. 1552 scripsit J.O. Orellius. 1838 [Leather Bound]
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