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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.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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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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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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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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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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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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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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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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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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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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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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