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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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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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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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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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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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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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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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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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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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