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Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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