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They say that Eastern doctors will pay as much for [pennyroyal] as we pay here for a load of Indian pepper.

— Walafrid Strabo

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Bello carpe rosas, laeta arripe lilia pace.
Pluck roses for war, for peace the smiling lily!

Whatever is seldom seen under one part of the sky
is readily available in other parts of the earth,
in such quantity there as the cheapest things are here.
Prosperous kingdoms abroad pay good money
for articles which may appear to us valueless.
Thus one country profits from another,
and the whole world in all its parts constitutes
a single household.

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