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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
Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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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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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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