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Samuel Butler Quotes about Death

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

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

Samuel Butler
Funny, Death, Men
Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4373, Delphi Classics

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Samuel Butler
Funny, Life, Death
Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4374, Delphi Classics

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

Samuel Butler
Death, Legacy, Decent

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Samuel Butler
Death, May, Immortality
Samuel Butler (1926). “The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler”

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Samuel Butler
Death, Doubt, Dying
Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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