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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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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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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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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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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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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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