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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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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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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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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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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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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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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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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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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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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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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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