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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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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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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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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 great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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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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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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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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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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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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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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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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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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