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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler
People
Company
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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Life
Music
Feeling
Instinct
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Life
Learning
Public
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Art
Life
Science
Life is one long process of getting tired.
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Life
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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Art
Life
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 think about it the better.
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Death
Mercy
Will
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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Fighting
First
Man
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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God
Devil
Effort
Labor
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
Life
People
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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Dreams
Prayer
Saying
World
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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People
Books
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler
Argument
Irony
Sarcasm
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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Mistake
Logic
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
Samuel Butler
Duty