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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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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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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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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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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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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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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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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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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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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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