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Open your mind before your mouth.

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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

Knowledge Yourself
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength

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