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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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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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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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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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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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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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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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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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