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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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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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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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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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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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