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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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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 man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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