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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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
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 teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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

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