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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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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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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. – 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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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals dont speak, its because everythings perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. – Jean Baudrillard

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Language is the dress of thought. – Samuel Johnson

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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 Teufelsdröckh, 1

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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

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Women are nothing but machines for producing children. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t. – Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. “The Mudge,” from “Th

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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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A lot of people think, Ill give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesnt work out Ill go get a law degree, do something else thats more practical. For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. – Brit Marling

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