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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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Men
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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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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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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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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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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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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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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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