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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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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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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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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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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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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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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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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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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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