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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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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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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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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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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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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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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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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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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