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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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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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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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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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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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