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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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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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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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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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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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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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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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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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