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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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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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