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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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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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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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