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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 best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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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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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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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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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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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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