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

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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
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 cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
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
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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
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
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel

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