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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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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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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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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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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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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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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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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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