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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.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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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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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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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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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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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