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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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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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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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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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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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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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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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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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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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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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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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