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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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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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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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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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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 only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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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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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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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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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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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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