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The history of art is the history of revivals.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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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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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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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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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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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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