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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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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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