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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 the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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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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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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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 human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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