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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 best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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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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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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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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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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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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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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