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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth

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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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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