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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
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
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger

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