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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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. – George Washington Carver

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You can never really live anyone elses life, not even your childs. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what youve become yourself. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Babies dont need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! Ill go over to a little baby and say What are you doing here? You havent worked a day in your life! – Steven Wright

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Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
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