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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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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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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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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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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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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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