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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
Farmer
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Painter
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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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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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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