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High thoughts must have high language.

Aristophanes

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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Father of Comedy
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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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 make a crab walk straight.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.
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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 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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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