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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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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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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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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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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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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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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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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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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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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.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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