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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Samuel Butler

Virtue

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Samuel Butler

Death

Life

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

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Samuel Butler

Reason

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Samuel Butler

Words

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

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Samuel Butler

Faith

Nothing

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.