"Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better."
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"I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny!"
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"The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot."
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"By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made"
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"Go on with a spirit that fears nothing."
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"There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands."
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"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."
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"I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me."
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"And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind."
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"A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me."
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"Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds."
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"Each man delights in the work that suits him best."
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"The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us."
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"Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds."
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"Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire."
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"Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much."
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"Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength."
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"Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind."
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"I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood."
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"A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases."
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