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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste

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