"Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.“


-Pliny the Elder

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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

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