These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

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Open your mind before your mouth

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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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