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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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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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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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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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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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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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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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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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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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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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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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