Quote by Samuel Butler
Self-preservation is the first law of nature. - Samuel Butler

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. – Samuel Butler

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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. – Samuel Butler

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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. – Jules Verne

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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. – Marquis de Sade

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. – Muhammad Iqbal

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