Quote by Samuel Butler
The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

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Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler

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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree. – Irving Batcheller

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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other mens thoughts, to speak other mens words, to follow other mens habits. – Walter Bagehot

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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile. – George Earle Buckle

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You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but dont blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man. – Johann von Goethe

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The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again. – Nora Ephron

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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. – Ralph Abernathy

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If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that Im going to show everybody, Im going to work hard to get better and better. – Magic Johnson

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