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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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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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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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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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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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