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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

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. – Samuel Butler

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Humor
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Samuel Butler
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? – Samuel Butler

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Marriage
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Samuel Butler
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Other Quotes from
Death
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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. – Horace

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Death

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. – William Shakespeare

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Death

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. – Miguel de Unamuno

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Death

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs. – Ahmed Yassin

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Death

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I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but Im glad that I did it. – Tom Glazer

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He not busy being born is busy dying. – Bob Dylan

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