To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all… - 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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Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902) was a British satirist, most famous for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.

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It is said of money that it is more easily made than kept and this is true of many things, such as friendship; and even life itself is more easily got than kept.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

God does not intend people, and does not like people, to be too good. He likes them neither too good nor too bad, but a little too bad is more venial with him than a little too good.

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

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