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

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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. – Samuel Butler

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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. – Samuel Butler

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Let every man be true and every god a liar. – 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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We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. – William Shakespeare

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Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything. – Benjamin Franklin

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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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We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. – Jean Baudrillard

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