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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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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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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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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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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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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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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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