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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
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
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
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
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
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
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
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
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

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

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