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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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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 absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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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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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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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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