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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.

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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need 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
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 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
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste

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