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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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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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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 only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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