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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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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

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To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

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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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At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. – George Carlin

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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did. – Imran Khan

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. – Marcus Aurelius

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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