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Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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.
Samuel Butler
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
Samuel Butler
The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Samuel Butler
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.
Samuel Butler
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Samuel Butler
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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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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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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History is a bucket of ashes.
Samuel Butler
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel Butler
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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