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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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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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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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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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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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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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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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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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