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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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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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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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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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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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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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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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