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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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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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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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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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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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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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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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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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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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