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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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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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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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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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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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History is a bucket of ashes.
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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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