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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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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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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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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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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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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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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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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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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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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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