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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by 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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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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