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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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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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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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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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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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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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