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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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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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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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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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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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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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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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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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