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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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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? – Samuel Butler

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Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. – William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595

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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. – Horace

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