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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

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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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Control Economics Family Financial Give Up Husband Men Responsibility Share
If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Deal Inspirational One Liner Rain Rainbow
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
Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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One Liner Quick Well
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
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Citizenship Comfortable Live Management Planning Pleasure Survive Temporary Wife
Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Alive Farewell Marriage Ourselves Togetherness
Practice, the master of all things.
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Master One Liner Practice
Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Death Life Myself Play Role
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
Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Death End Existence Myself Play Praise
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
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Common Worth Yourself
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
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
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Himself Listening Men Young
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

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