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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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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 and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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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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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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