“To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted…”

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“To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.”

— Pliny the Elder

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Title: Wikiquote: Pliny the Elder
Type: reference · Secondary source

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Elder, Pliny the. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Pliny the Elder. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder

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