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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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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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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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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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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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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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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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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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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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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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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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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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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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