- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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- By words the mind is winged.
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- High thoughts must have high language.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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- Man, though he be gray-headed when he comes back, soon gets a young wife. But a woman?s time is short within which she can expect to obtain a husband. If she allows it to slip away, no one cares to marry her. She sits at home, speculating on the probability of her marriage.
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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- Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh
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- 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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- Under every stone lurks a politician.
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- You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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