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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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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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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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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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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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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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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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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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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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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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