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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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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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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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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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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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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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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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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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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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