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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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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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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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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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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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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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