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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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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.
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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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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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