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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
Samuel Butler
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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