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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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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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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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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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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 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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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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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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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