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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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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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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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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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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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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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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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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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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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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