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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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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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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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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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