1I have burdened you by sending so many volumes all at once, but I have burdened you first because you had demanded it, and secondly because you had written that the vintage there was so thin that I knew for certain you would have time, as the common saying goes, to read a book. 2The same news comes from my own little farms. 2So I too shall be free to write things for you to read, provided only there is money to buy paper; 2otherwise we shall necessarily rub out whatever we write, good or bad. 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae VIII
Pliny, Letter 8.15
A poor vintage and much reading
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