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Samuel Butler

"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence."

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"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence."

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"A bachelor, a studio, those were the names for that kind of apartment. Separate entrance it would say in the ads, and that meant you could have sex, unobserved."

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"Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude."

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"Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy."

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"I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all."

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"Your life should always come with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top."

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"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."

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"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."

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"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."

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"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."

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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
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"For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine."
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"Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life."
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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
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"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."
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"Let every man be true and every god a liar."
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"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."
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