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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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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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