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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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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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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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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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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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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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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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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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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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