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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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 God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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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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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.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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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.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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