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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
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
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
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
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money

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