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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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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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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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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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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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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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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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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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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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