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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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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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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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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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