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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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More quotes by Samuel Butler
In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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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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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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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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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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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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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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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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