{"title":"Butler — Insufficient Premises","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"premises-butler-tee","title":"Sufficient Conclusions from Insufficient Premises — Samuel Butler Quote T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe text says “we need to talk.” By the time you call back, you’ve written the whole conversation in your head. It was about dinner plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Samuel Butler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Note-Books of Samuel Butler, ed. Henry Festing Jones, 1912. Ch. 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