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Quote by Samuel Butler
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. - Samue

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

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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Samuel Butler
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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

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Wise Words
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but hes not boring. – Barbara Bush

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The best cure for boredom is hard work. – Proverb

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Boredom

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. – Attributed to Goethe, by Huebsch

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Boredom

Boredom: the desire for desires. – Leo Tolstoy

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Its the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. Its a quality to be proud of. But its a quality that many people seem to have neglected. – Gerald R. Ford

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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. – Max de Pree

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