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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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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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