"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
-Samuel Butler
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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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"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing."
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"Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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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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