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A slave is but half a man.

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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women

A slave is but half a man.

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