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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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High thoughts must have high language.

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The wise learn many things from their enemies.

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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

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Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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Under every stone lurks a politician.

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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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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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Evil events from evil causes spring.

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You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

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I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

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I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

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The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

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