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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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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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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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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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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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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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