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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.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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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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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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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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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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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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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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