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The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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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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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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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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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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