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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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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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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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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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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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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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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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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 three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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