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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.

It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.

Approximate author period: c. 51 AD · classical

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Pliny The Elder
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Approximate author period: c. 51 AD · classical
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Natural History. Book xviii. Sect. 44.

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