"The first thought is often the best."

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Source : Joseph Butler (1856). “The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: on Personal Identity, and on the Nature of Virtue; and Fifteen Sermons”, p.450

Joseph Butler

“All of what the government said is lies upon lies.”
“I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.”
“Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.”
“There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.”

Source : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.179
“It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.”
“I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.”
“I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter what religion you were centered in.”
“With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?”

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