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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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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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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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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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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 dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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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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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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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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