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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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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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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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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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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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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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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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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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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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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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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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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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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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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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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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