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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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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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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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