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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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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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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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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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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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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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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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