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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.

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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change 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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring

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