Samuel Butler's Quote - Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he

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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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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. – Samuel Butler

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Brigands demand your money or your life women require both. – Samuel Butler

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For every why he had a wherefore. – Samuel Butler

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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. – Baltasar GraciÃ¡n, translated from Spanish

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Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. – Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

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Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. – Author Unknown

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Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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