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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. – Samuel Butler

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To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. – Samuel Butler

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Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. – Dame Edith Sitwell

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So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones. – Quran

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Long before we saw the sea, its spray was on our lips, and showered salt rain upon us. – Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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