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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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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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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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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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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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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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