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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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 human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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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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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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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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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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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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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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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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