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Such as take lodgings in a head thats to be let unfurnished. - Sam

Such as take lodgings in a head thats to be let unfurnished. – Samuel Butler

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There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule. – Samuel Butler

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Rules
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler

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respect
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. – Samuel Butler

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Money
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. – Gaston Bachelard

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil. – Bernard Baruch

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Ideas

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. – P. W. Bridgman

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