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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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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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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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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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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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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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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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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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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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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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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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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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