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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

Aristophanes

Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying

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