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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.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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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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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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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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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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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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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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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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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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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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