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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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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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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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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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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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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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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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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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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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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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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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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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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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