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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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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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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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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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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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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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