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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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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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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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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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