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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.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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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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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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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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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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