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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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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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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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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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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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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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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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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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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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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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