Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.Samuel Butler
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
Samuel Butler
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler
For rhetoric, he could not open his mouth, but out there flew a trope.
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