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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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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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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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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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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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 man be true and every god a liar.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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