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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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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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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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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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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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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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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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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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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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