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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#life #must #neither #seriously #taken

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#cannot #continually #ere #find #how

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#distrust #educating #important #magazines #matter

There is no bore like a clever bore. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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