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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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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is...
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The old saying of Buffon's that style is the man himself is as near the truth as we can get—but then most men mistake grammar for style, as ...
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The dead being the majority it is a natural thing that we should have more friends among these than among the living.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime. A man at five and thirty should no more regret not hav...
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Pain and pleasure are infectious. It depresses us to be much with those who have suffered long and are still suffering; it refreshes us to be ...
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Money indeed may be considered as the most universal and expressive of all languages. For gold and silver coins are no more money when not in ...
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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 br...
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we...
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It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being...
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I have been told lately that Fuseli was travelling by coach and a gentleman opposite him said: 'I understand, Mr. Fuseli, that you are a paint...
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H.F. Jones's mother—I said of her once that to have known her is an illiberal education.
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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 sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man from the commission of all si...
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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
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Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
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There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.
By Samuel Butler
An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
By Samuel Butler
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
By Samuel Butler