Pliny the Elder: True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

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Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)

"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it."

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