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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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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. – Samuel Butler

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A mans friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. – Samuel Butler

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Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. – Bill Cosby

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I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy. – Manny Pacquiao

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Our society’s values are being corrupted by advertising’s insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. – John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968

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