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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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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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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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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 was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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