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«What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«God is Love - I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Conscience
«An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Ideas
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incoherency, incoherent, introduced, shy, wear off, wear on
«Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.»
«The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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praising
«The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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bounds
«There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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