Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily
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And prove their doctrine orthodox by apostolic blows and knocks.Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Samuel Butler
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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