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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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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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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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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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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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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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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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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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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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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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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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