Every one should keep a mental waste-paper basket and the o… - Samuel Butler

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Every one should keep a mental waste-paper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902) was a British satirist, most famous for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.

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This poem [The Ancient Mariner] would not have taken so well if it had been called “The Old Sailor.”

It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

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Every one should keep a mental waste-paper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. - Samuel Butler

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