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It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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