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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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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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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 man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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