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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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Religion
People
Christian
Hearing
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Conservative
Nothing
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
Right
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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Love
Men
Truth
Fear
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
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May
Silence
Tact
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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Nature
First
Law
Self
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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Men
Training
University
World
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Women
Weapons
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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Thought
People
Being
Care
Taste
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.
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People
The history of art is the history of revivals.
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Art
History
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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God
Gods
Past
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Life
Living
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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God
Apology
Books
All truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel Butler
Truth