We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes...

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes...

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will...

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets...

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets...

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper,...

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper,...

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of...

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken...

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by...

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by...

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are -...

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are -...

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive...

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive...

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong,...

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong,...

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy