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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most.	Samuel Butler	The Way of All Flesh
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.	Samuel Butler	The Way of All Flesh
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	The Way of All Flesh
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage--but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.	Samuel Butler	The Way of All Flesh
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.	Samuel Butler	The Way of All Flesh
It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.	Samuel Butler	The Way of All Flesh
Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way . . .	Samuel Butler	The Way of All Flesh
An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.	Samuel Butler	The Way of All Flesh
Youth is like spring, an overpraised season.	Samuel Butler	The Way of All Flesh
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.	Samuel Butler	The Way of All Flesh

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