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Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 292: January to June, 1902
As we have said, Pliny was essentially a bookish man. He was never so happy as when he was mding or writing. Even when he went hunting he carried his tablets with him, in case the game was shy; and nothing pleased him better than for some young man to ask his advice as to his studies. He liked to discover youths of promise, to bring them on, to patronise them, and to have all the world know that it was Plinius Secundus whom they took as their model. We can well imagine, therefore, how delighted he was to accept the invitation of some budding poet or author to his first recitation. It afforded him precisely the same personal gratification which many worthy people of our own day feel when they are asked to take the chair at some amateur debating society, or when they see their names in the newspaper as among those on the platform.
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