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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
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
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

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

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