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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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