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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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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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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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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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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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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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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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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 dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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