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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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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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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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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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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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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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