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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 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

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

— Samuel Butler

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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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

— Samuel Butler

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

— Samuel Butler

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

— Samuel Butler

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