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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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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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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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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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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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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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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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