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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.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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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 dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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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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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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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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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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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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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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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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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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