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A truce to idle phrases!

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Aristophanes
Age: 0
Comedy Writer
Playwright
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Father of Comedy
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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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