There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
More Quotes from Samuel Butler:
Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain.Samuel Butler
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life. There is no form of penal servitude worse than this.
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And wisely tell what hour o' the day The clock does strike, by algebra.
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While the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.
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