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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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