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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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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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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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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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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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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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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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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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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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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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