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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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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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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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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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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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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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