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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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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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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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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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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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