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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
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
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself

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