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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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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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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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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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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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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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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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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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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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