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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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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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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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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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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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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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