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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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
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
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
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying

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