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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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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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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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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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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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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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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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