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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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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
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
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
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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
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
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
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
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
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
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
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
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
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself

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

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