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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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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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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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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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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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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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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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