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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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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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