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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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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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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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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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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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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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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