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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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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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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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 in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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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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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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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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