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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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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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