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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
- Samuel Butler
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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.
- Samuel Butler
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
- Samuel Butler
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
- Samuel Butler
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
- Samuel Butler
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
- Samuel Butler
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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.
- Samuel Butler
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
- Samuel Butler
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
- Samuel Butler
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
- Samuel Butler
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
- Samuel Butler
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
- Samuel Butler
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
- Samuel Butler
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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.
- Samuel Butler
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
- Samuel Butler
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
- Samuel Butler
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
- Samuel Butler
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
- Samuel Butler
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
- Samuel Butler
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
- Samuel Butler
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
- Samuel Butler
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
- Samuel Butler
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
- Samuel Butler
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
- Samuel Butler
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
- Samuel Butler
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
- Samuel Butler
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
- Samuel Butler
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
- Samuel Butler
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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
- Samuel Butler
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
- Samuel Butler
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
- Samuel Butler
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
- Samuel Butler
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
- Samuel Butler
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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.
- Samuel Butler
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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
- Samuel Butler
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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
- Samuel Butler
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
- Samuel Butler
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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.
- Samuel Butler
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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.
- Samuel Butler
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
- Samuel Butler
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
- Samuel Butler
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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.
- Samuel Butler
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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.
- Samuel Butler
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
- Samuel Johnson
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
- Samuel Johnson
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
- Samuel Johnson
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
- Samuel Johnson
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