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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life i

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy 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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Writing
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy — but he who has shown the better temper. – Samuel Butler

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Argument & Debate
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that. – Author Unknown

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Life

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. – Rupert Brooke

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Life

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. – Aristotle

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Life

The quality, not the longevity, of ones life is what is important. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Life

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All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder. – Author Unknown

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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. – Harry Mathews

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Translation

Its clever, but is it Art? – Rudyard Kipling

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Art

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. – Janis Joplin

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