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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, l

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. – 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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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. – Abraham Lincoln

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