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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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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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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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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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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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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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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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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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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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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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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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