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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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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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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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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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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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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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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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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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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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