The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
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For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots of ale.Samuel Butler
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other--I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Samuel Butler
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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