The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.Samuel Butler
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler
Why should not conscience have vacation As well as other courts o' th' nation.
Samuel Butler
There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
Samuel Butler
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
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