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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.
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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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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 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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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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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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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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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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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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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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