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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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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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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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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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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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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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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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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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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 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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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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