British - Poet | December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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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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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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