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

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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying

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