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

Every one should keep a mental waste-paper basket and the older he grows the mor — Samuel Butler

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.

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