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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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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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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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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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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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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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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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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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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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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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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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