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Quote by Samuel Butler
To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. – Samuel Butler

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The swing on your porch is a better liver of life than the chair in front of your computer. – Terri Guillemets

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Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. – Robert Frost

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Haters never win. I just think thats true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end. – Tom Hiddleston

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