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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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