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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Aristophanes

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
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
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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