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Letter "V" » Vesuvius
«I'll take Vesuvius!»
«We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny the Younger, who went on studying a Greek author while before his eyes Vesuvius was overwhelming five cities beneath the ashes»
Author: Anatole France
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In books, overwhelming, Pliny, simpleton, simpletons, studying, The Ashes, very much like, Vesuvius
«Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!»
«I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.»
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