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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. – Samuel Butler

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. – Samuel Butler

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It is bad enough to see one’s own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people’s rubbish fathered upon oneself. – Samuel Butler

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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. – Attributed to George Carlin

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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when its packaged as the Night Out, then thats the death of it. – Ralph Fiennes

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. – David Sarnoff

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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive — besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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After Four Feathers, I quit then because I just lost faith. I didnt like how the business was. – Wes Bentley

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