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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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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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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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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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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 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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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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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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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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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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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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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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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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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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