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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life i

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler

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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. – Samuel Butler

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