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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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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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

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Life
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A physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a clerics divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. – Samuel Butler

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Medical
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I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears. – Martin Short

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. – George Eliot

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