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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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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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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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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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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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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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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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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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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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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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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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