If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

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"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers, we more than gain in fruits."

- Samuel Butler

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"Friendship is like money—easier made than kept."

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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

- Samuel Butler

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"To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."

- Samuel Butler

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"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."

- Samuel Butler

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