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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… — Samuel Butler
You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional… — Sophia Bush
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. — Samuel Butler
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. — Samuel Butler
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. — Samuel Butler
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. — Samuel Butler
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. — Samuel Butler
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. — Samuel Butler
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. — Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. — Samuel Butler
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… — Samuel Butler
A man is known by the company his mind keeps. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his… — Samuel Butler
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will… — Samuel Butler
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all,… — Samuel Butler
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers… — Thomas Carlyle
I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his… — A. S. Byatt
In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks… — A. S. Byatt
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law… — Robert Byrd
Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. — David Byrne
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. — Lord Byron
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. — Lord Byron
Friendship is Love without his wings! — Lord Byron
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control… — Lord Byron

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