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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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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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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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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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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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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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