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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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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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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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