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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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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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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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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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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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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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