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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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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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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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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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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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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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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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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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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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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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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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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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History is a bucket of ashes.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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