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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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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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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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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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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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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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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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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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