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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

~Samuel Butler

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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: December 4th, 1835

Died: June 18th, 1902

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