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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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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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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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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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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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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 wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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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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