Samuel Butler's Quote - The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been ca

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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 voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. – Samuel Butler

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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. – Samuel Butler

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have. – Samuel Butler

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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words…. Be not the slave of Words… – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr TeufelsdrÃ¶ckh, 1

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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess

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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth. – Antonin Artaud

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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. – Roland Barthes

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