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Old age is but a second childhood.

Aristophanes

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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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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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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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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Old age is second childhood.
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