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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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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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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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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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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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