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Quote by Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficien

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler

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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – 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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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement… for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. – Max Beckmann

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job. – Simone de Beauvoir

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