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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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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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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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