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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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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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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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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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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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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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