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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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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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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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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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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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