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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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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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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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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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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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