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Life is the distribution of an error--or errors.
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Murray (the publisher) said that my Life of Dr. Butler was an omnium gatherum. Yes, but life is an omnium gatherum.
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Life is a superstition. But superstitions are not without their value. The snail's shell is a superstition, slugs have no shells and thrive just as well. But a snail without a shell would not be a slug unless it had also the slug's indifference to a shell.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.  
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My days run through me as water through a sieve.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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Life is eight parts cards and two parts play, the unseen world is made manifest to us in the play.
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Lizards generally seem to have lost their tails by the time they reach middle life. So have most men.
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A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities, as well as those of other people, will keep him from...   Butler, Samuel

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