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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

~Samuel Butler

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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: December 4th, 1835

Died: June 18th, 1902

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