When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care...

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care...

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

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

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he...

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he...

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

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

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

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism...

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...

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each...

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each...

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also...

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting...

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be;...

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be;...

Youth is like spring, an overpraised season

Youth is like spring, an overpraised season

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of...

If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of...

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the...

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the...

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of...

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of...

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an...

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an...