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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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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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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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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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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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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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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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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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