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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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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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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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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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