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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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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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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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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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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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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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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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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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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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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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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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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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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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