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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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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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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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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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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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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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