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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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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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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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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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