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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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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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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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