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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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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. – Samuel Butler

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When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. – N.Smith

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Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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