Deny Quote by Samuel Butler

“To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.”

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

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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

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