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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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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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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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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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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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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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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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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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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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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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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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