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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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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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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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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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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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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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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 is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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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 function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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