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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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