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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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Man
Victims
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Man
State
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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Marriage
Thought
Heaven
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Men
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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Hate
Lying
Mind
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
Samuel Butler
World
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Belief
Body
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler
Books
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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Money
Women
Life
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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Adultery
Christ
Cruelty
Divorce
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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Christ
Quiet
Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
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People
Profession
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Mistake
Being
Right
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
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Day
Tomorrow
Trouble
Will
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
Friendship
Money