All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.

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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Samuel Butler in The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
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