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The old are in a second childhood.

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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
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
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
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger

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