Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.Samuel Butler
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science
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Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
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For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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