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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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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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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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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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