Quote by Samuel Butler
For every why he had a wherefore. - Samuel Butler

For every why he had a wherefore. – Samuel Butler

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. – Francis Bacon

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. – Francis Bacon

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Every clarification breeds new questions. – Arthur Bloch

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Ask the right questions. The fastest way to change the answers you receive – Lee J. Colan

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We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. – Randolph Silliman Bourne

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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. – Allan Bloom

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