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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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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 course of true anything never does run smooth.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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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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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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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