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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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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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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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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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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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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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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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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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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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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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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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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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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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