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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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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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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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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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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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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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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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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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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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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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