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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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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation 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
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
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
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
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste

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