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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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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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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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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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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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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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