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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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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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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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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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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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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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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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