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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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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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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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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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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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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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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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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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