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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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