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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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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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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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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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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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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 history of art is the history of revivals.
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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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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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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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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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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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