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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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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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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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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 advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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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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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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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 youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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