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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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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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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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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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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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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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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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