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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.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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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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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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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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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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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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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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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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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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