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Quote by Samuel Butler
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe h

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry. – Samuel Butler

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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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Writing
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Samuel Butler
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. – Samuel Butler

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Money
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. – William Cowper

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Remorse is virtues root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. – William Cullen Bryant

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Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. – Charles Dickens

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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. – Bob Dylan

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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams…. Man… is above all the plaything of his memory. – Andre Breton, “Manifesto of Surrealism,” 1924

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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. – Thomas Aquinas

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