Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying don… - Samuel Butler

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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime.

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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When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me.

They were gentlemen in the full sense of the word; and what has one not said in saying this?

A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime. - Samuel Butler

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