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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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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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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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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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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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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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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 is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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