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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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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. – Samuel Butler

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