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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 best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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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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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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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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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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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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