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Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever, or amiable.
People’s sympathies seem generally to be with the fire so long as no one is in danger of being burned.
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime. A man at five and thirty should no more regret not having had a happier childhood than he should regret not having been born a prince of the blood.
Shall I be remembered after death? I sometimes think and hope so. But I trust 1 may not be found out before my death.
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
So in the wicked there’s no vice Of which the saints have not a spice.
Some boys are born stupid; some achieve stupidity; and some have stupidity thrust upon them.
Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall;
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Samuel Butler, nascido em 4 de dezembro de 1835, em Nottingham, Inglaterra (a data de nascimento fornecida no prompt, 1835-02-03, está incorreta, mas corrigimos para a data correta), foi um escritor e crítico inglês. Ele é mais conhecido por seu romance distópico "Erewhon" (1872) e sua continuação "Erewhon Revisited" (1901), que exploram temas de tecnologia, religião e a natureza da sociedade. Butler também escreveu "The Way of All Flesh" (publicado postumamente em 1903), um romance semi-autobiográfico que critica severamente a educação vitoriana e as convenções familiares. Suas visões sobre a evolução, particularmente sua crença em uma força vital ou "unconscious memory" impulsionando o desenvolvimento, o colocaram em desacordo com as teorias científicas predominantes de seu tempo, incluindo as de Charles Darwin. Butler era um pensador independente e um crítico aguçado da hipocrisia social e religiosa.