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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
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
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
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
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
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk

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