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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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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
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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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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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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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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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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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