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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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It is bad enough to see one’s own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people’s rubbish fathered upon oneself. – Samuel Butler

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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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Man is Gods highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. – Samuel Butler

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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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We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. – William Shakespeare

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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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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. – Thomas Love Peacock

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