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Lycinus
They went to law, but were compounded.—You don’t say they didn’t get apart again?
He would apply the same delicate treatment to people unsound in their Attic.
‘That’s the truth of it,’ said some one, ‘between you and I.'
‘Ah no, you will have to admit that you and me are wrong there.’
Another person giving a circumstantial account of a local legend said: ‘So when she mingled with Heracles—’ ‘Without Heracles’s mingling with her?’
He asked a man who told him that he must have a close crop, what his particular felony had been.
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‘There I quarrel,’ said his opponent in an argument. ‘It takes two to make a quarrel.’
When some one described his sick servant as undergomg torture, he asked, ‘What for? what do they suppose they are going to get out of him?’
Some one was said to be going ahead in his studies. ‘Let me see,’ he said; ‘it is Plato, I think, who calls that making progress.’
'Will we have a fine day?'' ‘If God shall.’
‘Archaist, curse not thy friend!’ he retorted, to a man who called him curst instead of crusty.
A man once used the phrase, ‘I was trying to save his face.’ ‘But is he in any danger of losing it?’ asked Socrates.
'Chided,’ said one man, ‘chode,’ another. He disclaimed all acquaintance with either form.
A person who volunteered ‘but and if’ was commended for his generosity.
Some one tried him with ‘y-pleased’; ‘no, no,’ said he; 'that is too much of a good thing.’
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