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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? – Samuel Butler

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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. – Samuel Butler

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Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell. – Samuel Butler

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butler

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There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Everett Dirksen

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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. – John Quincy Adams

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The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. – Herodotus

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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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