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Quote by Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – 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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Death
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler

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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. – Thomas Paine

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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. – Lois McMaster Bujold

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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. – Henry Ward Beecher

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