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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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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. – Albert Einstein

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. – Benjamin Franklin

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck

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Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. – William Shakespeare

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