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Samuel Butler
England
1613 // 25 Sep 1680
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On Word:
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind
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On Irony:
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument
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On Life:
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it
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On Law:
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature
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On Enemy:
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them
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On Lie:
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him
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On Logic:
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it
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On Life:
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
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On Life:
Life is one long process of getting tired
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On Life:
Life is not an exact science, it is an art
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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