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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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 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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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.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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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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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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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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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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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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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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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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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
Samuel Butler
