It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler in The Way of All Flesh
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Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

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To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

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It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.

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