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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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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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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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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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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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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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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 a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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