Quote by Samuel Butler
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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Faith – you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. – Samuel Butler

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butler

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. – John W. Gardner

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Dig the well before you are thirsty. – Chinese Proverb

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