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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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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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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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