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I am looking for an honest man.

Diogenes

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All things are in common among friends.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of dog. It is you who are dogs, cried he, when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.
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