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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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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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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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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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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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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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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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