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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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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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