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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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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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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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