![[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.](/assets/img/quote-photos/footnote-pliny-the-elder-perished-in-79-ad-when-he-refused-to-flee-from-the.jpg)
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