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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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#conclusions #contrary #enough #far #follow

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devise #irish #nation #now #old

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#endow #evil #fortune #great #greatest

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#conscious #less #lives #mainly #mould

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#duty #exceedingly #find #hard #knows

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#function #keep #reasonable #vice #virtue

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#chisel #complete #life #life is a #mold

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#laughs #legislature #man #only #state