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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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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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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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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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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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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 dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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