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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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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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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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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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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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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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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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