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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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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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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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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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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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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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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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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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