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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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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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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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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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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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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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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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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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