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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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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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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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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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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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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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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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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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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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