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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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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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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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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.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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