"Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me."
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"The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe."
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"But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame."
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"She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills"
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"Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace."
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"Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving."
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"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."
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"When I was seventeen I drank some very good beer I drank some very good beer I purchased With a fake ID My name was Brian McGee I stayed up listening to Queen When I was seventeen"
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"God help me, I'm just not that bright."
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"Base wealth preferring to eternal praise."
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"Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee."
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"Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return."
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"Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods."
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"Ajax the great Himself a host."
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"Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed."
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"The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth."
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"And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel."
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"A sound mind in a manly body."
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"Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes."
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"The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!"
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