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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
Samuel Butler -
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler -
The history of art is the history of revivals.
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 -
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler -
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Samuel Butler -
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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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.
Samuel Butler
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
Samuel Butler -
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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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel Butler -
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Samuel Butler -
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
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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