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Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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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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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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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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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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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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