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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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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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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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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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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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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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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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