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Content to follow when we lead the way.
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I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.
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A sound mind in a manly body.
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The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.
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The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
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Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.
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And woe succeeds woe.
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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
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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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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
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It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.
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It is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
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They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.
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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
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All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
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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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One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.
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To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
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No trust is to be placed in women.
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Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.
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If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.
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Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.
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All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.
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Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow.