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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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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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History is a bucket of ashes.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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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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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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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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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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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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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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