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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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