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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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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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