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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

Aristophanes

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Aristophanes
Age: 0
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Debt
Seem
Forget
Money
Seems
Remember
Owing
Never
Owes
Men
Somehow

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