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History is a bucket of ashes.

Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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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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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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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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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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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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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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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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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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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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