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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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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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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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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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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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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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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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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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