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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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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 hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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