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Samuel Butler

"In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation."

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"In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation."

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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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