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Aristophanes

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
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
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning

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