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History is a bucket of ashes.

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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 wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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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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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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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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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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