Quote by Samuel Butler
Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. – Samuel Butler

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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. – Samuel Butler

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There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule. – Samuel Butler

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler

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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them. – Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the mans life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. – Jean Anouilh

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Im as pure as the driven slush. – Tallulah Bankhead

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God cannot alter the past, though historians can. – Samuel Butler, “Prose Observations”

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Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago. – Jay Alan Sekulow

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I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I mean, why am I considered an it girl? Because Im in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because heres the thing with it girl status. Its great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last? – Amanda Seyfried

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