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• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
  -- Samuel Butle...
• All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)...
• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902), "Notebooks" 1912...
• Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven.
  Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?...
• People who live beyond their income should act their wage.
• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. -- Samuel Butle