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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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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. – Samuel Butler

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Dreams
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To himself everyone is an 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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Immortality
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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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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. – Mason Cooley

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Art

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. – Pablo Picasso

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Art

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – Ezra Pound

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Art

I dont want to be interesting. I want to be good. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Art

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As Ive often said, Wisconsins greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values. – Jim Doyle

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Man know much more than he understands. – Alfred Adler

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So it allows me to travel, Ill be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what Ive done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience. – Richard Dean Anderson

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