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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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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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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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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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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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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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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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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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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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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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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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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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