Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient pr…

Samuel Butler
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ✨ Notebooks Life (1912)
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime ✨ TheWay of All Flesh ch. 24 (1903)
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. ✨ Notebooks ch. 14 (1912)
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ✨ Samuel Butler (2015). Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated), p.4082, Delphi Classics
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. ✨ Samuel Butler (2008). The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. ✨ 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said. Book by Robert Byrne, 1988.

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