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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 people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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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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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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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 truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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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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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 obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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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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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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