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

Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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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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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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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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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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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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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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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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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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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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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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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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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