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An actor should refine public taste.

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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
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 mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
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
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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