samuel-butler

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We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
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For if it be but half denied, 'Tis half as good as justified.
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Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
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Perhaps; but is it not Tennyson who has said: "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all"?
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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