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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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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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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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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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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 apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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