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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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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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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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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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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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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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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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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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