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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
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
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
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
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
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit

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