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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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 worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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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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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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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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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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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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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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