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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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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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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 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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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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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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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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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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