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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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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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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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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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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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