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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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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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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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