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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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. – Samuel Butler

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Christianity
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Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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Birth was the death of him. – Samuel Beckett

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If you make every game a life and death proposition, youre going to have problems. For one thing, youll be dead a lot. – Dean Smith

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