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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.


Samuel Butler

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LYNN CAINE There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.
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BARUCH SPINOZA I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
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EDMUND BURKE Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity
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So death is life's forgetfulness
MIHAI EMINESCU That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
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JOHN GREEN Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
SAMUEL BUTLER For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an...
SAMUEL BUTLER Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
SAMUEL BUTLER Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
SAMUEL BUTLER An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
SAMUEL BUTLER The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
SAMUEL BUTLER To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
SAMUEL BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last
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