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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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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.
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