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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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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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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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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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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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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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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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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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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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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.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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