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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.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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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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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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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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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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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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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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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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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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