"First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!"
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"A companion's words of persuasion are effective."
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"We got a little rule back home: If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back."
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"Look at me! I'm a puffy pink cloud!"
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"I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!"
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"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them."
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"I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated."
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"It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!"
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"Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing."
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"I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead."
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"Once you go Vatican, you never go back again."
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"It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go."
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"It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told."
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"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them."
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"Reproach is infinite, and knows no end."
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"By their own follies they perished, the fools."
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"And not a man appears to tell their fate."
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"Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature."
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"The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again."
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"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved."
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