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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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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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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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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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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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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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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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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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