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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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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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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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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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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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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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