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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

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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
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
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
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
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
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
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
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
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel

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