Samuel Butler

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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.
To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
The course of true anything does not run smooth.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

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