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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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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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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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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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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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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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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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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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