“The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs…. A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance.”
— Pliny 23 – 79 CE
(Pliny Gaius Plinius Secundus, Pliny the Elder)
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from Natural History
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