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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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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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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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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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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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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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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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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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