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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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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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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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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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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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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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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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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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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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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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