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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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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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