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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

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Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell. – Samuel Butler

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Heaven
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. – Samuel Butler

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best
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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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Why chase a hopeless dream? I dunno, maybe for the dream, maybe for the chase, maybe to meet another hopeless dreamer. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. – Plato

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If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. – Cree Indian Proverb

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Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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