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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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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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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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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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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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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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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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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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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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