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

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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
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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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Break Thinking Try
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
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
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring

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