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High thoughts must have high language.

Aristophanes

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary 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 truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
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
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men

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