Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
ARISTOPHANESHigh thoughts must have high language.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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