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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet

Open your mind before your mouth.

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