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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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 function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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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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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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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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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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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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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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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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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler
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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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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