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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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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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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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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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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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