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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.

Aristophanes

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Aristophanes
Age: 0
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Start
Entanglement
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Wits
Another
Strike
Thought
Wit
Trying
Fresh
Thinking
Strikes
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Baffles

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