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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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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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