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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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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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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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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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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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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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