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• People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

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  Christian, People, Atheism

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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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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  Thinking, Religion, Way

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• The history of art is the history of revivals.

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  Art, Architecture, Revival

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 8

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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.

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  Writing, Men, Years

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4167, Delphi Classics

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• If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

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  Funny, Life, Death

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4374, Delphi Classics

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• Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

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  Inspiring, Nature, Flower

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.425, Delphi Classics

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• Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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  Men, Different Opinions, Interest

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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  Justice, Innocence, Sometimes

  Samuel Butler (1806). “Hudibras: In three parts, written in the time of the late wars”, p.248

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• 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.

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  Love, Forgiveness, Forgiving

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.288, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

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  Vicious, Virtuous

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

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  Spring, Action, Consciousness

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.25, Samuel Butler

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• [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

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  Mind, Doe, Metaphysics

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.105, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

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  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  "The Guardian view on drinking culture: statistics, myths and alcohol abuse", www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

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• A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

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  Money, Children, School

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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  Vices, Virtue, Function

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.47, The Floating Press

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• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

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  Men, Animal, Laughing

  "1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, 1988.

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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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  Inspirational, Praise, Advantage

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 34

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• Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

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  Genius, Might, Kind

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 11

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• The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

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  Writing, Drained

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

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  Taken, Sailor, Ancient

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

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  Looks, Leap, Reap

  Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson (1807). “Poetical works: With the life of the author”, p.217

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• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

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  Gold, Virtue, Commoners

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.75, Samuel Butler

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• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

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  Morning, Lightning, Dew

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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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  Thinking, Etc, Remember

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

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  Money, Order, Long

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.57, The Floating Press

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