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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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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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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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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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