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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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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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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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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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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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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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