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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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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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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler -
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler -
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Samuel Butler -
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Samuel Butler -
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler -
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Samuel Butler
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
Samuel Butler -
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Samuel Butler -
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler -
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
Samuel Butler -
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 -
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Samuel Butler
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel Butler -
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Samuel Butler -
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
Samuel Butler -
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler -
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Samuel Butler -
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Samuel Butler
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
Samuel Butler -
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel Butler -
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butler