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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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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – 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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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. – Samuel Butler

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Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death. – Desmond Morris

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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. – Joseph Hall

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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. – Ian Fleming

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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. – Sophocles

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