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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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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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