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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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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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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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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.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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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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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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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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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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