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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
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
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
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
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

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