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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 should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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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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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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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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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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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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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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