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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 advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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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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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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