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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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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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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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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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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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