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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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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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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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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 is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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