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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Aristophanes

There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
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
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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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Chance Drink Women
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
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
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

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