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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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 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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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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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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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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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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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