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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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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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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 definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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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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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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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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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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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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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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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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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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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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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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