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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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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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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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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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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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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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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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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 dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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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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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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