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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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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 history of art is the history of revivals.
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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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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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