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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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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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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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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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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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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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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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