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Quote by Samuel Butler
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the s

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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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? – Samuel Butler

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power
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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Culture
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Death
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau

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Death

Death is the final wake-up call. – Douglas Horton

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Death

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? – Brigitte Bardot

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Death

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. – Harriet Martineau

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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. – Abraham Lincoln

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In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldnt drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing. – Willie Mays

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