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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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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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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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