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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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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
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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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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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