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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 great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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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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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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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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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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