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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
Farmer
Novelist
Painter
Photographer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Easier
Friends
Money
Made
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Kept

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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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