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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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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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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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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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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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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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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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