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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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History is a bucket of ashes.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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