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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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
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
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People

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