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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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