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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

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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
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
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
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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

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