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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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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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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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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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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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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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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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