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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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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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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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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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