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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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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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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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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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