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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#condemns #good #half #loudly #moderate

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#beyond #cases #common #her #jurisdiction

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#anything #art #care #come #else

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#nervous #nervous system #oils #only #sustain

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#happened #i #imagine #little #myself

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#fail #must #others #succeed

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#america #dreadful #fellow #high #i

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house. ↗

— Jay-Z

#collection #extensive #filled #grew #had

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible. ↗

— Isaac Butt

#attending #birth #buried #date #death