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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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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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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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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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