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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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 only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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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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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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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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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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