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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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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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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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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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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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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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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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