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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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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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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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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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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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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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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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