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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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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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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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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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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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