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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
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
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
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
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices

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