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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
Samuel Butler
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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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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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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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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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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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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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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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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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