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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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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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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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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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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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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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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.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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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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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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