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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

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