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Wise Quotes by Samuel Butler
- It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
- Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
- Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the…
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