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

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Aristophanes
Age: 0
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Vulgar
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Popular
Horrible
Politician
Voice
Breeding

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The love of wine is a good man's failing.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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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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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Old age is but a second childhood.
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