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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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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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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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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 I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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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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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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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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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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