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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been ca

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

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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Genius
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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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Media
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A mans friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. – Samuel Butler

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Marriage
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Language

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 4

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Language

Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler

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Language

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. – Julia Penelope

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Language

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I love learning new techniques. – David Bailey

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Learning

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

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Fear

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. – Tom Lehrer

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Peace

And Im walking along and were laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited. – Betty Hill

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Knowledge