samuel-butler

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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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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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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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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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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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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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Neither have the heart to stay, Nor wit enough to run away.
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Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence.
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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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