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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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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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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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