"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"

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"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."

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"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."

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"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

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"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."

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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."

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"I work as my father drank."

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"Some donkeys have amazing luck."

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