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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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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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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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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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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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