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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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More quotes by Samuel Butler
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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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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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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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 was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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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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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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