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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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 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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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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