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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
Architecture
Music
Work
Literature
Man
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Evil
Water
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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Faith
Nothing
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Fear
Hearing
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Samuel Butler
Morality
Country
Custom
Feeling
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Death
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Life
Character
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Silence
Tact
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Virtue
Vice
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Being
Injustice
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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Innocence
Justice
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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God
Man
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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Appearance
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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Men
Goodness
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.
Samuel Butler
Letters
Man
Sound
Wine