"Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke."
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"It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]"
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"His descent was like nightfall."
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"Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero."
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"I long for home, long for the sight of home."
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"Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals."
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"There will be killing till the score is paid."
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"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
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"And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!"
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"Singing is the lowest form of communication."
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"The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers."
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"A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed."
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"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
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"Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything."
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"Trying is the first step toward failure."
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"Too many kings can ruin an army"
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"But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me."
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"Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace."
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"No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny."
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"Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born."
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