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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.

~Samuel Butler

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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

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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.

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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: December 4th, 1835

Died: June 18th, 1902

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