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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

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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
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
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
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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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

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