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The old are in a second childhood.

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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Father of Comedy
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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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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Open your mind before your mouth
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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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It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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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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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.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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