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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 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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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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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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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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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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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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