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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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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler

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The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons. – Prince Philip Edinburgh

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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, its so petty. – Imelda Marcos

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To go too far is as bad as to fall short. – Confucius

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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. – William Blake

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With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee. – Author Unknown

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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. – Will Durant

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This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man – if man is not enslaved by it. – Jonas Salk

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