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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

Aristophanes

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  A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.

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  A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

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  Let each man exercise the art he knows.

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  One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

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