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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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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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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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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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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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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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