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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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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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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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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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