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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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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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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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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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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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