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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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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler

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Water
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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Letters (writing)
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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Every day you waste is one you can never make up. – George Allen

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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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Excess

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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Excess

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. – Bernard Berenson

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Excess

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Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, its unbelievable! – Angelina Jolie

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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. – Kary Mullis

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If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow. – Chinese Proverb

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