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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Aristophanes

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Politician
Voice
Breeding
Vulgar
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Manner
Popular
Horrible

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Old age is second childhood.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests hence the state limps along.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Old age is but a second childhood.
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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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Open your mind before your mouth
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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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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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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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