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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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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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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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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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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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