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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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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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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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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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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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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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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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