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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 history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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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.
Samuel Butler
Let man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel Butler
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
Samuel Butler
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
Samuel Butler
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
Samuel Butler
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Samuel Butler
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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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Samuel Butler
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Samuel Butler
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butler
Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
Samuel Butler
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
Samuel Butler
