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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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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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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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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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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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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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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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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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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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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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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.
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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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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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