Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. — Quoted

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“Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.”

Samuel Butler · Work

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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

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