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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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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious 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
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice

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