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Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family’s financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Death End Existence Myself Play Praise
I am a man of my word.
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Man One Liner Promise Word Yourself
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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Hands Myself Part Play Praise Stage
After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
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Authority Friendship Myself Office Position Time
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.
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Age Expense Initiative Liberty Myself Oppression Order Raise Republic Resolution Restore Service
What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Enough One Liner Quick
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Argument Change Citizenship Constitution Establishment Man Seek
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
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Change Greatness Impediment Lying Mindset Ourselves Role Traditional Unconscious Visible
I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Assumption Factory Myself Thinking World
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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Citizenship Survive Wife
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Conquer Race Roman World
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Name Ourselves Sand Wash Wave Writing
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Common Worth Yourself
I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
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Agriculture City Courage Goodness Grain Mindset Myself People Politician Review
Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Demand Empire Myself
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Himself Listening Men Young

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family’s financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

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Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family’s financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

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