Samuel Butler: If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success .

If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own su — Samuel Butler

If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success .

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On doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la vérité. — Voltaire
An honest man nearly always thinks justly. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
三人行，必有我師焉：擇其善者而從之，其不善者而改之。 — Confucius
So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit. Thus at Time's humming loom I ply — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The British army should be a projectile to be fired by the British navy . — Viscount Grey . Quoted by Lord Fisher