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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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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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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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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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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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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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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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