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Samuel Butler

"We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire."

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"We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire."

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"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."

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"Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually."

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"Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing."

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"Politeness is organized indifference."

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"If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is dependent upon the mechanical adjustments of his body, and that inversely his body is subjected with certain limitations to his will, then it only remains for him to make one assumption more, namely, that this mutual interdependence between the spiritual and the material is itself also dependent on law, and he has discovered the bond by which the science of the matter and the science of consciousness are united into a single whole."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced."
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