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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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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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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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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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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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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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