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Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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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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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 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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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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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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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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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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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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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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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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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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