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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler
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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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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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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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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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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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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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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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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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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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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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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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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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