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Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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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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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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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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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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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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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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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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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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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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