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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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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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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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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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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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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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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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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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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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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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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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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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