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Samuel Butler Quotes: What runs through a person like water through a sieve.
         

What runs through a person like water through a sieve.


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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.



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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.



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

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





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