It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
From Samuel Butler
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
There is no bore like a clever bore.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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