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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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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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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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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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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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