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Two things only the people anxiously desire - bread and circuses


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The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
JUVENAL Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games.
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MARK WETMORE Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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BILLY BARTY I made a sandwich out of things. I'm an American. We can eat anything as long as it's between two pi...
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AUBREY JEWETT Mom wouldn't remember things. She would, say, make cheese sandwiches, only you'd have bread and butt...
JUDY MCKELLAR I said I didn't have any. I always tell people the only weapon I have is a bread knife.
ALEX GROBLER World only has two things: Things you can eat and things you can no eat.
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ASHTON EATON If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily
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SANTōKA TANEDA Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
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BERTRAND RUSSELL I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
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OLASOT Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.
SHANNON L. ALDER The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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ERMA BOMBECK My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
RAF SIMONS Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.
PAULO COELHO A man needs only his daily bread.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
TONY BLAIR Take care, lest you lose a male who'll desire only you - and gain a male who'll desire only others.
KRESLEY COLE There are only two things needed to maintain celebrity: Being clever enough to ensure that nothing t...
COLIN GORMAN My not having what i desire mean two things: time is not yet ripe for me to have it or there is far ...
STEPHEN EVANS HEREMESI Every problem comes with two things – a suffering and a message. The only difference between a win...
ALKA DIMRI SAKLANI, BEYOND SECRETS Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
JOHN DRYDEN Two people can share a life of dreams, if they know their hearts desire, if they love,care,and alway...
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AFTAB KHAN SHERPAO I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
DAVID MAMET Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.
GAIL PARENT There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.
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HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE I only answer to two people, myself and God.
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A. A. MILNE how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.
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JOHN DRYDEN I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.
DIONNE WARWICK One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Sliced bread is only as good as the peanut butter and jelly on top of it.
JOHN SMITH The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire...
WILLA CATHER The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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DIMITRIS TIMOTHEATOS Really only two things in life are definate, religion and war, in perfect harmony.
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TSUYOSHI SEGAWA If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.
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ROBERT THOMPSON We are anxiously awaiting more aid because it's much needed.
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The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
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And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
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JUVENAL Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
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JUVENAL difficile est saturam non scribere
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]
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