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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself

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