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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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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 only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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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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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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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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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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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 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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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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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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