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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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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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size

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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