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A truce to idle phrases!

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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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