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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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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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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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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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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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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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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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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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