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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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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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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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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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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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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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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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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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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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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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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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