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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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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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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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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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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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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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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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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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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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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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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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