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Aristophanes

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
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
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
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
It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
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
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing

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