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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

~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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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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Let every man be true and every god a liar.

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There is no bore like a clever bore.

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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: December 4th, 1835

Died: June 18th, 1902

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