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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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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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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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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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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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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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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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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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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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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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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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