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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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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
Samuel Butler
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
Samuel Butler
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Samuel Butler
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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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Samuel Butler
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
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.
Samuel Butler
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Samuel Butler
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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