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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.
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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Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
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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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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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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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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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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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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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