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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
By Samuel Butler
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
By Samuel Butler
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
By Samuel Butler
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
By Samuel Butler
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
By Samuel Butler
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
By Samuel Butler
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
By Samuel Butler
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
By Samuel Butler
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.
By Samuel Butler
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
By Samuel Butler
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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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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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
By Samuel Butler
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
By Samuel Butler
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
By Samuel Butler
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
By Samuel Butler
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.
By Samuel Butler