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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Aristophanes

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
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 can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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