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Quote by Samuel Butler
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that h

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler

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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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Letters (writing)
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Samuel Butler
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. – Samuel Butler

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Dreams
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Samuel Butler
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It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. – Samuel Butler

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Alcohol/Alcoholism
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. – Joan Didion

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A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I – Theodore White

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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. – Slovakian Proverb

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The sea hath no king but God alone. – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship

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