If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
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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.Samuel Butler
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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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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