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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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 human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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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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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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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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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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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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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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