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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Aristophanes

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Lasts
Drunkenness
Ages
Educated
Ignorance
Youth
Stupid
Sobered
Forever
Outgrown
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Immaturity

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