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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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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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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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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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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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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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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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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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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