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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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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. – Samuel Butler

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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Oaths are but words, and words but wind. – Samuel Butler (1612-1680), Hudribas

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Conversation is the slowest form of human communication. – Author Unknown

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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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