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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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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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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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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