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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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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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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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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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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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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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