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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

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An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
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
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

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