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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Samuel Butler
Wind
Words
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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Thoughts
Actions
Spring
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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Men
Opinions
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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Ideas
Trying
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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Clothes
Want
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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People
Children
Earth
Parents
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Money
Enemy
Order
Want
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Santa claus
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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Controversy
Temper
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler
Music
Father
Parents
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Love
Money
Evil
Want
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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God
Historians
Past
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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Life
Living
Man
Question
Worth
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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Virtue
Vice
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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People
Irish
Nation
Now
Old